8. n. (Téléphonie) (US) Trunk : circuit établi entre deux autocommutateurs permettant le transport simultané de plusieurs dizaines de communications.
European trunks can carry thirty communications whereas US ones can carry only twenty-three simultaneous communications.
trunk
1. n. (heading, biological) Part of a body.
2. n. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
3. n. The torso.
4. n. The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of ani
5. n.A container.:
6. n. A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at eac
7. n. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or othe
8. n. (US, Canada automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
9. n.A channel for flow of some kind.:
10. n. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
11. n. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
12. n. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill
13. n. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
14. n. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
15. n. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
16. n. The main line or body of anything.
the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
17. n. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
18. n. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
19. n. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to
20. n. Shorts used for swimming (swim trunks).
21. v. (obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
22. v. (mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
frustum
1. n. Tronc, pyramide ou cône coupé par un plan.
frustum
1. n. A cone or pyramid whose tip has been truncated by a plane parallel to its base.
2. n. A portion of a sphere delimited by two parallel planes.
